Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | yesterday
HARLINGEN, Texas-- South Texas was getting back on its feet today as residents filter through the soggy mess left by Hurricane Dolly despite thousands still being without power.
HispanicTrending (Free subscription) | yesterday
She says she's 'humbled' for making Hispanic history July 24, 2008 By PEGGY FIKAC Texas' new secretary of state, Esperanza "Hope" Andrade of San Antonio, said Wednesday she feels a particular responsibility to do "an exceptional job" because her appointment...
Domestic Fuel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Members of a House Agriculture subcommittee are expressing concerns that restrictions under the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) in the 2007 Energy Independence and Security Act could be detrimental to the development of second generation ethanol using biomass. The House Agriculture Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, Energy, and Research held a hearing to review the RFS implementation and [...]
TTC News Archives (Free subscription) | yesterday
All choked up over this Mansion mess July 24, 2008 Bob Buckel Azle News Copyright 2008 Governor Rick Perry can probably continue to get re-elected until his world-famous hair turns gray or falls out. He just looks like a Texas governor ought to look (as a [female] former staff member said, “like he just just stepped out of a Wranglers ad”). And hey, no ideas means no bad ideas, right? If you don’t...
Eye on Williamson (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
There may be a case to be made for Rick Perry’s Trans-Texas Corridor (TTC) but the one that Phillip Jankowski of the Taylor Daily Press recently tried to make isn’t it - A case for the Trans-Texas Corridor. In an attempt to show how the TTC can make the city of Taylor a “player” [...]
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
U.S. President George Bush Thursday issued a disaster declaration for parts of Texas slammed by Hurricane Dolly.Dolly stormed ashore at South Padre Island Wednesday packing 100-mph winds and heavy rain.Gov. Rick Perry, speaking at the state Capitol in Austin, said search-and-rescue missions have been started along the Texas-Mexico border and to the San Antonio area where an operations center has been...
Texas Politics (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Republican U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison has made it pretty clear that she would like to run for governor in 2010. Gov. Rick Perry has said he plans to run again for an unprecedented third four-year term. They avoided a...
On Deadline (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
The remnants of what once was Hurricane Dolly continue to push inland today in Texas and Mexico, after slamming ashore Wednesday on Gulf Coast as a Category 2 hurricane. The AP reports that residents and rescue teams are fanning across...
News: Moldova.org: Politics (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Texas Gov. Rick Perry plans to ask U.S. President Bush to designate South Texas a federal disaster area in response to Hurricane Dolly.Dolly stormed ashore at South Padre Island Wednesday packing 100-mph winds and heavy rain.The governor, speaking at the state Capitol in Austin, said search-and-rescue missions have been started along the Texas-Mexico border and to the San Antonio area where an operations...
Biofuels Digest (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
In an article titled “Uprising Against the Ethanol Mandate”, the New York Times profiled the fight led by Texas Governor Rick Perry to reduce the ethanol mandate to 4.5 billion gallons in 2009. Governor Perry told the Times that the grain used for fuel would be better used as livestock feed. Uprising against the ethanol [...]
IOL (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Hurricane Dolly has downgraded to a tropical storm after it tore into Texas and Mexico.
South Texas Chisme (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Gov. Rick Perry today named former Texas Transportation Commission member Hope Andrade of San Antonio as secretary of state, and immediately administered the oath of office to her in a private ceremony attended by family and friends.
Capitol Annex (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
Interesting news from The Hill , via Texans on the Potomac : Tom DeLay will not seek a pardon in an ongoing federal corruption investigation from President George W. Bush–but he will accept a pardon from Texas Governor Rick Perry on the state charges he has been indicted on. The thing that is especially interesting about this is that it appears DeLay and his lawyer, Dick DeGuerin, (and possibly The...
NPR Blogs: News & Views (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
CNN Trains Its Lens on Race In a year that marks both the 40th anniversary of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. and Senator Barack Obama's rise to become the presumptive Democratic nominee for president, CNN set out to explore how black people are feeling, thinking and doing. The effort has been spun into a pair of two-hour documentaries: "The Black Woman and Family," which airs tonight,...
Baltimore Sun (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
BROWNSVILLE, Texas (AP) _ Residents and recovery teams began fanning out across south Texas Thursday and cars crept along roads with darkened stoplights as the region got its first look at the destruction left by Hurricane Dolly.
